i am doing a project on why we should recycle plastic and i need to know the answer to my question
Plastic bottles are made from oil - a fossil fuel that will one day run out. It is important to make use of materials like plastics that can be recycled and re-used, rather than continually exploiting the fossil fuels used to make them in the first place. In Britain we throw away about 455,000 tonnes of plastic bottles every year - that's around 9.1 billion bottles! Many of these end up in landfill where, because plastic bottles are very light but very bulky, they take up lots of space. Plastic is believed to take around 500 years to decompose. Plastic bottle recycling helps to stop all these bottles being dumped into landfill sites and means the plastic they are made from can be used to make new products. All sorts of amazing products can be made from recycled plastic bottles, including fleece jackets! It takes just 25 x 2 litre pop bottles to make one adult size fleece jacket. Recycling just one plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a 60W lightbulb for six hours! Recycling plastic helps to reduce emissions of CO2 and nitrogen oxide. Plastic recycling, saves energy, resources and helps protect the environment.
Then plastic will take over the world.
But what everyone needs to realize is that it is not just bottles it is also your plastic ware as well that is recyclable. It is ashamed on how many people do not recycle.
As plastic does not biodegrade it creates problems for years down the road. Plastic objects get brittle and break into little pieces which scatter or go into the soil. In the ocean it is well documented that plastic may be mistaken for food by marine animals. Plastic bags look like jellyfish. Disposable lighters look like little colorful fish. Glittery chunks of plastic may just look good to eat. All that gets stuck in their stomachs and they starve to death. I saw a PBS (public TV) show and thought they were at a landfill-it was really a secluded beach in Hawaii completely buried in trash that had been deposited by ocean waves. A biologist collected the stomachs from albatross carcasses and lined up the plastic contents on the ground-it was shocking-little toys, pens, lids, pacifiers, etc., basically anything that could be swallowed. We need to try harder to deal with the plastics problem-more types of plastics should be recyclable, more people need to recycle and manufacturing companies need to also be part of the solution.
the bottles and other things build up in lanfills and they don't biodegrade. RECYCLE!
